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What the f*cking hell are you suggesting you c*nt? :mad:

Yep, quite the nastiest bunch of people ever to wield power anywhere in the world, and that includes outfits like the Communists, Nazi's, Khmer Rouge etc etc. An interesting illustration of just how terrible these people are is that twice in the last six months or so I've heard respected BBC correspondents openly calling them 'Bastards' live on air. On both occasions the programme host had to apologise for the language, but it just goes to show how truly, truly evil the Taliban are. Yep. It's pretty awful to be reduced to that conclusion but you are right I'm afraid. They're now apparently offering the locals in the border area's the equivalent of £9,000 to anyone willing to give up a child to become a suicide bomber. Faced with that level of ruthlessness, we're not far from kill or be killed over there....

*sigh* How many more times is this sick lie going to be peddled? That incident ocurred in Swansea, not Southsea. You see, different spelling. Try to take it slowly now, s w a n s e a , geddit? And now, s o u t h s e a- see? Different spelling, different place ffs......

Rubbish. Football has always been about money it's just that it's now become bloated now to the point of saturation. If it wasn't about money clubs like Rochdale and Accrington Stanley would have won a ****load more than they actually have, and Chesterfield could be going for another treble this year. As for the 'not enough bums on seats to pay 75k a week to players' argument, all the time we're a Premiership club with the Sky money coming in, we can afford it. And so what if we're selling our best players at the moment? Sure, we're not happy about it, but if you came up to me 10 years ago and offered me the gamble of punting the £5m from the sale of Crouch to Villa on a go at promotion, not only getting promoted, but winning the thing, then staying up and going on to win the cup, before having to sell a load of the team to survive due to the owner feeling the pinch, then **** it, how many would say, 'Nah you're alright mate, I'm happy where we are'? Speculate to accumulate. We did, you didn't. Look where we both are as a result....

Right. To all those clinging to the hope that we'll be dead and buried by early August, here's a summary of events so far: Letter of intent (contract agreeing to buy the club at an already agreed price if nothing nasty is found in due diligence) signed in Paris six weeks ago. Due diligence completed to the satisfacton of the buyer yesterday. Premier League Fit and proper person test the last hurdle. He is NOT going to fail the test. Deal done within the next two weeks. Then we'll find out if he's: a) A total chancer without a bean to his name who's trying to impress his mates. or b) A reasonably wealthy enthusiast i.e. multi millionaire, who's looking to make a few bob on the property side as well as fund a decent level PL oufit. or c) A nonothingaboutfootballnumpty with billions to burn who will try to outbid citeh at every turn. Personally, I suspect b), but the other two scenario's wouldn't surprise me either........

See? Told you administration was the best thing that could happen to you.... *sigh* No-one listens to me on here, can't think why

Hmmm, cheers. Strange feelings at the moment for quite a few Pompey fans. On one hand absolute hilarity in a 'We've waited 40 ****ing years for this' kind of way. On the other, a shiver down the spine as in: 'There but for the grace of god go I......' All the name calling, recriminations and angst are also desperately dark, dark places we've been too before. Sounds silly to say you literally have nightmares sometimes, but you do on occasion, when things get this low. I suspect you'll still be around in one form or another. Just try not to fall out forever over it- it's only a game. Trouble is, it isn't just a game is it? An absolute bloody curse, football is.........

Steady on old chap- most unlike you! I'm assuming that you were/are 'Grumpydelldays' on other forums? You're one of the reasons I ocassionally stray onto here, as in a: "You're more than welcome to join the new forum" message posted by you during the dying embers of the old TUI site. Actually, with that in mind, maybe you are guilty to a degree . Having said that, the 'Pompey fan on a string' song is utterly pathetic. Anyone singing it should be ashamed of themselves. Sadly, we have a couple of similar knuckledragging ditties of our own. They never fail to leave me cringing as they're belted out by a thankfully dwindling band of retards. Most of us have moved on from the anti-scum songs now. I wonder what would have happened if I'd wandered past in my Pompey shirt? It would have been nice to stop for a beer and a chat with fellow footie fans. A nice idea maybe, but somehow I don't think that would have happened that way from the sounds of things. Shame....

I suspect they found some very, very scary figures in the books and just used the -10 issue as a convenient face saving way of baling out......

Oh allright- I'll hold my hand up to doing the last four issues, being a mere contributor before that......

Fantastic! this link led me to a compilation, which led me to New Musik, which led me to 'World of water' on Ebay. Been after it for donkeys years. Tenner for the whole album, delivered. Thankyou, thankyou! I knew there was a good reason for loitering on here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA2cJI1yWmM I'll get me trunks........

I think it's becoming clear that the five year plan includes getting you back up into the Championship in year 1 of 5. Otherwise why would the Pinnacle bid be stalling over the 10 point deduction issue? As an outsider, there appear to be two questions- 1) Why are Pinnacle so desperate to get rid of the 10 point penalty? See above theory. 2) If the theory above holds any water, why bother continuing talking to the league anyway? Leon Crouch blew the whole 'SLH isn't SFC' argument apart by openly admitting on Five Live that the company was set up that way deliberately to try to avoid any future Football League points penalties. To continue the FL lobbying is surely at best naive, or at worst they could be just postioning themselves for a pullout on the basis that the five year plan won't stack up on the 10 point penalty issue? This was just the sort of manouvering and posturing that we had back in the late 90's when we into admin. It's an absolute nightmare of rumour, counter rumour and false hope. We were damned lucky to come out of it with Mandaric at the helm, but it was a close run thing. We nearly ended up with a potless local consortium type fudge that would have got us nowhere......

Here it is, and I have to say you're all absolutely right to be outraged. The whole things a farce...... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8113783.stm

Any news on the cat? Getting worried. Hope it's allright. I mean, it must be cold up in that tree. Getting dark soon too. Must be hungry too. Poor little thing. We had a cat once and......

Yup. 3rd January 1988.......0-2. Mmmmmm...0-2....

Er, no he didn't actually......

Origins of the term "Scummer" An interesting story came the posse's way a few weeks back about the true origin of the term scummer or scum. Apparently, just before the first world war, a dispute broke out between a local fishing company and it's employees. We don't know the name of the company, but we do know that it had two branches, one in Portsmouth and the other in S***hampton. The dispute, over wages, escalated and eventually the union called a strike, which was solid among both the Portsmouth company union men and the S***hampton company union men. Nothing was resolved, and after some weeks the S***hampton company men broke the strike and went back to work, thus ensuring the collapse of the dispute without any gain for the employee's of either company. Not suprisingly, the Portsmouth company were incensed at the actions of thier fellow workers, and apparently one wag noticed that the first letters of the S***hampton Company Union Men spelt SCUM. Hence the name Scum or Scummer as a term of abuse for anyone from S***hampton was first coined. Taken form the hard copy of the April/May 1996 issue of Frattonise.......

Different sort of game in a different era at different prices even allowing for inflation. I get the feeling we're not exactly as one on this one are we?

Actually, most of us are decent enough- I'd be happy to meet up for a beer with any of you sensible guys the next time we play each other. I suppose at the end of the day we all love football, it's just that we follow different clubs...

1500 for a 'save the saints' match that had to be called off. 'Pot' and 'kettle' are two words that come to mind....

Nope. Sorry but that just won't wash. This was billed as a 'save the saints' event, and as such if there was really, really any true feeling about your club, it SHOULD have sold out. It didn't. Not only did it not sell out, sales didn't top 1500. Even if you couldn't stand another 90 minutes of dross at SMS with all the crap on the pitch and off it, if you really cared, you'd buy a ticket and just throw it in the bin if you couldn't actually face being there. As for being 'proud of Saints fans for turning their backs on it', that just speaks volumes about how far you're prepared to go to save your club. When the SOS Pompey campaign was started in 1976 I gave my 60p a week pocket money to it every week until the campaign finished. It amounted to just a few pounds. A pathetic gesture in many ways, but one of many, many thousands of similar gestures that showed that we cared and incredibly ended up actually raising the 25k we needed to stave off bankruptcy.....

Absolutely spot on......

What a load of utter crap. If you were such a 'big club' how come you couldn't sell more than 1500 tickets for a 'save the saints' all-stars game. After that fiasco, don't you ever, ever try to say your support is bigger than ours again, because it simply isn't. You're just the same as us, a medium sized provincial club, and that's all you're ever likely to be.... Really? Lets look shall we? How many major trophies have you won? Er, one. How many have we won? Four, the last only a year ago. THAT'S your history lesson..... Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Basingstoke- not Southampton. I think it's stretching it a bit far to try to cash in on that one. On the other hand, Charles Dickens was Pompey born, as was Peter Sellers. Also, if a photo of St Marys makes you think you're the bigger club, forget it- it's a white elephant that's taken you to the brink of bankruptcy... Seen through the rosiest of rose tinted glasses. Come on, be honest- neither city is gonna win best in Britain is it? However, if you want to get picky, Pompey ALWAYS finishes 1 or 2 places above southampton in best places to live surveys. Overall, what's happening now is payback time, a sort of 'what goes around, comes around' if you like. For forty odd years you guys were above us- bet you never thought it was going to end? Well now it's your turn to get the fuzzy end of the lollipop........

LORETTA: And the People's Front of Judea. ALL: Yeah. Splitters.... REG: What? LORETTA: The People's Front of Judea. Splitters. REG: We're the People's Front of Judea! LORETTA: Are we? I thought we were the Popular Front. REG: People's Front! FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg? REG: He's over there. ALL: Splitter!

Sorry Nick, not you- the Barman character in the film Thorpie was referring to (It's a Wonderful life) was called Nick. If you've never seen it, it's as old as the hills (1946), but an absolute must if you're ever really, really depressed. People seriously considering taking their own lives have even pulled back from the brink after seeing it, it's that uplifting. It's also a rattling good yarn. If you do get to see it, make sure you're sober- it's a guaranteed blub fest otherwise! Oh, and it's best viewed at Christmas for maximum atmosphere......